Estes Park Opinion

Election is about the big picture

Posted:
10/26/2012 12:16:42 PM MDT

Dear Editor:

For Republican women, the 2012 presidential election is about far larger, more important issues than whether or not the government should pay for birth control. Reasonable women understand Roe v. Wade and birth control aren't controlled by the White House. Mitt Romney isn't going to take away women's rights. Those are minor social issues when you look at the big picture.

Forget the spin, what really matters to women in America?

Work? 760,000 more women are out of work than when President Obama took office. Obama has fewer women in his White House than his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Women support the Republican Party because they want to limit the role of government, promote traditional values, and uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Women are Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and one group doesn't control the narrative of what women want.

Sincerely,

Michelle Hurni

Estes Park

Al Qaeda is alive and well

Dear Editor:

We have heard many times that Al Qaeda is all but dead and that President Obama killed Osama and Al Qaeda. What is really going on?

On Oct. 19 this year, Obama said that Al Qaeda is on the pathway to defeat and a few hours later, Al Qaeda delivered an attack on a Yemini Army base and killed 24.

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In recent weeks, U. S. commanders have had to intensify strikes aginst Al Qaeda, which further undercuts the Obama narrative portraying Al Qaeda as totally defeated.

London Telegraph reports that AQ is now moving weapons and men across the boarder from Pakistan into Afghanistan. They are fighting U.S. troops, spreading the extremist message, raising money, requiting young Afghans and providing military expertise to the Taliban and other radical groups.

AQ has a growing presence in Yemen, Somolia, India, Uzbekistan, and of course in Libya, where they were responsible for the death of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans. They are active in France, UK, Spain, Austria and elswhere.

The London Telegraph and Daily Mail reported that Al Qaeda was responsible for the deadly forest fires this summer in Spain, Potugal and Italy. Recently found Al Qaeda documents declared a Forest Jihad on Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana and will attempt to start fires in these states.

We must call a terrorist a terrorist and fight back. The world, including America, is under attack. Al Qaeda is not dead, but deadly.

Mack Hunt

Estes Park

Worry about jobs, not

birth control

Dear Editor:

Since Barack Obama became our president, 5.5 million women have lost their jobs and family income has dropped almost $5,000 a year.

The women who wrote saying they are concerned about women's choices on reproductive health need not worry if Romney becomes our president.

He is not going to prevent women from getting their contraceptives and abortions. He is simply saying that if we have to borrow the money from China to pay for them, we cannot afford it.

Millions and millions of babies have been aborted by Planned Parenthood in abortion clinics. Has this helped the community?

Maybe one of those babies would have been our next president.

Why should Obama be able to force a business to have health insurance to pay for their women employee's birth control pills and abortions if that business, such as a Catholic Hospital, has a moral or religious belief against killing babies?

Do we still have Freedom of Religion as guaranteed by our Constitution? How many women's jobs will be lost when all these Catholic and other Religious Institutions close their doors rather than compromise their religious beliefs?

Women for Obama are not for women or for what is best for the U.S.A.

Audrey F. Hunt

Estes Park

Economy, not candidates threaten

women

Dear Editor:

In recent days there has been a suggestion that this presidential race is all about women. Some have even suggested that Romney would hurt women.

From my perspective, that seems to be a stretch. The thing that is hurting women most in our nation right now is the economy.

Fewer jobs mean less flexibility and fewer options. Lower paying jobs for everyone increases the chance that there will be a need for two incomes even when a family would prefer to have a stay at home mom for a few years.

Fewer job options push more single moms below the poverty level.

Romney has demonstrated his ability to be a job creator. His history of hiring women is exemplary.

As governor, he had more women in his cabinet than any other governor. He has not taken a stand against contraceptives, as has been claimed, but rather suggests that employers must have the option of not making that part of their health care package if it goes against their faith.

OK, contraception is available for a lot less than the cost of your iPhone. You are not denied care but simply asked to pay, as you would for your phone. If that is not your preference, you can go to work for a company that includes contraception in their benefits.

The issue isn't whether your birth control is a benefit from your job, but rather whether you have a job at all.